The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-21

lty, decency, principle, honesty,
truth and purity, to be found in
the State, and you even 60 80 far
as to assert that your Third party
is "the child OF prophecy" Which
OF the prophets pointed you out,
you don't say, but it must have
been the one that carried Balaam
on his journey with the Princes of
Moab. If all you claim be true,
you are entirely too good and pure
and holy for this sinful world, and
the sooner you are carried by
angels to Abraham's bosom" the
better it will be for you. And 1
am very sure that it would greatly
aid the adoption of the pending
amendment if you could all be
transported to that blissful abode
and kept there until after the next
election. You cay it would be a
great benefit to prohibition if l
would practice what l preach.
Allow me to tell you that l do
practice just what 1 preach. At
the last election in this county l
voted for two candidates for the
House of Delegates who were elect.
ed and voted to submit the amend.
ment to the people, while you came
here and did everything in your
power to defeat them. The third
candidate for whom I voted stood
pledged to vote for the submission
of the amendment if elected. And
in this one act l claim l did more
for the cause of constitutional rati
fication in the State than you and
your whole party put together.
You parade a long list of quotations
from liquor organs of other States
to disprove my statement that the
liquor men in West Virginia favor
your Third party. I have read
these quotations and fail to find in
them single reference to a Third
party organization of the Prohibi-
ton force. What they are fighting
against is the combined Prohibit
ton forces in each State and in the
Nation, no matter in what party
they are found And, of course,
they are doing this in the light OF
current events. They had sus-
tanned no injury at the hands of
your Third party, but on the con-
trary they were greatly indebted
to you for the valuable assistance
your party had rendered them in
the State of New York by drawing
off from the Republican party
votes enough to elect a Democratic
brewer Secretary of State, as well
as for like services rendered them
in previous elections. What trou.
bles them is the Prohibition forces
found in the old parties, which
alone endangers their traffic. But
one of the papers you quote refers
to the Prohibitionists as a party at
all. And it is plain that this
paper has no reference to the Third
party organization, but to combin.
ed Prohibition forces wherever
found.
When 1 wrote my reply to your
first article 1 supposed that you
and your Third party were, and
would continue to be, in favor of
the adoption of the pending amend
ment at the next election but a
careful reading of your reply under
consideration has satisfied me that
I was mistaken. Your reply from
beginning to end shows that your
real object is to build up Third
party in the name of Prohibition,
but with prohibition simply as the
incident, and that until you attain
the object you don't want the Incl
dent. If this is not what you are
after, please explain what you
mean by the following:
"Having, as I think, in the fore
going clearly proven the absolute
and imperative necessity for new
and better party in the State and
Nation, both for its moral and f.
nancial salvation, with or without
reference to the amendment now
pending, do not, however, wish to
be misunderstood as to my views
relative to the amendment"
You want Ga new and better
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